Sebastiano Ricci (1 August 165915 May 1734) was an

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of the late

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period in

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. About the same age as

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, and an elder contemporary of Tiepolo, he represents a late version of the vigorous and luminous Cortonesque style of grand manner fresco painting. He was the uncle of Marco Ricci (1676 – 1730), who trained with him, and became an innovator in

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Early years

He was born in

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, the son of Andreana and Livio Ricci. In 1671, he was apprenticed to Federico Cervelli of

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. Others claim Ricci's first master was Sebastiano Mazzoni. Indiscretion at a young age in 1678 resulted in an unintended pregnancy and, later, a bigger scandal when Ricci was charged with trying to poison the young woman in question to avoid marriage. He was imprisoned, and released only after the intervention of a nobleman, probably a Pisani family member. He eventually married the mother of his child in 1691, although this was a stormy union. Following his release he moved to

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, where he lived near the Parish of San Michele del Mercato. His painting style there was apparently influenced by Giovanni Gioseffo dal Sole. On 28 September 1682 he was contracted by the "Fraternity of Saint John of Florence" to paint a ''Decapitation of John the Baptist'' for their oratory. On 9 December 1685, the Count of San Secondo near

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commissioned the decoration of the ''Oratorio della Beata Vergine del Serraglio'', which Ricci completed in collaboration of Ferdinando Galli-Bibiena by October 1687, receiving a payment of 4,482 Lira. In 1686, the Duke Ranuccio II Farnese of

commissioned a ''Pietà'' for a new Capuchin convent. In 1687-8 Ricci decorated the apartments of the Parmense Duchess in

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with canvases recounting the life of the Farnese pope,

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Turin and return to Venice

Apparently in 1688, Ricci abandoned his wife and daughter, and fled from Bologna to

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with Magdalen, the daughter of the painter Giovanni Peruzzini. He was again imprisoned, and nearly executed, but was eventually freed by the intercession of the Duke of Parma. The duke employed him and assigned him a monthly salary of 25 crowns and lodging in the

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. In 1692, he was commissioned to copy the ''Coronation of Charlemagne'' by

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, on behalf of

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, a task he finished only by 1694. The death of the Duke Ranuccio in December, 1694, who was also his protector, forced Ricci to abandon Rome for

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, where by November 1695 he completed frescoes in the Ossuary Chapel of the Church of San Bernardino dei Morti. On 22 June 1697, the Count Giacomo Durini hired him to paint in the

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. In 1698, he returned to the Venetian republic for a decade. By 24 August 1700, he had frescoed the chapel of the Santissimo Sacramento in the church of Santa Giustina of

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. In 1701, the Venetian geographer Vincenzo Coronelli commissioned a canvas of the ''Ascension'' that was inserted into the ceiling of sacristy of the Basilica of the Santi Apostoli in Rome. In 1702, he frescoed the ceiling of the Blue Hall in the

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, with the ''Allegory of the Princely Virtues'' and ''Love of Virtue'', which illustrated the education and dedication of future emperor Joseph I. In Vienna, Frederick August II, the elector

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, requested an ''Ascension'' canvas, in part to convince others of the sincerity of his conversion to Catholicism, which allowed him to become the

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. In Venice in 1704 he executed a canvas of ''San Procolo (Saint Proculus)'' for the Dome of

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and a ''Crucifixion'' for the Florentine church of San Francisco de Macci.

Florentine frescoes

In the summer of 1706, he traveled to

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, where he completed a work that is by many considered his masterpieces. During his Florentine stay he first completed a large fresco series on allegorical and mythological themes for the now-called ''Marucelli-Fenzi'' or '' Palazzo Fenzi'' (now housing departments of

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). After this work, Ricci, along with the quadraturista Giuseppe Tonelli, was commissioned by the Grand Duke Ferdinando de' Medici to decorate rooms in the

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, where his ''Venus takes Leave from Adonis'' contains heavenly depictions that are airier and brighter than prior Florentine fresco series. These works gained him fame and requests from foreign lands and showed the rising influence of Venetian painting into other regions of Italy. He was to influence the Florentine

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fresco painter Giovanni Domenico Ferretti. In 1708 he returned to Venice, completing a ''Madonna with the Child'' for

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. In 1711, now painting alongside his nephew, Marco Ricci, he painted two canvases: ''Esther to Assuero'' and ''Moses saved from the Nile'', for the Taverna Palace.

London and Paris

He ultimately accepted foreign patronage in London, when he was provided a £770 commission by Lord Burlington for eight canvases, to be completed by him and his nephew Marco, depicting mythological frolics: ''Cupid and Jove'', ''Bacchus meets Ariadne'', ''Diana and Nymphs'', ''Bacchus and Ariadne'', ''Venus and Cupid'', ''Diane and Endymion'', and a ''Cupid and Flora''. Sebastiano_Ricci_-_Bacchus_and_Ariadne_-_Google_Art_Project

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He decorated the chapel at Bulstrode House near

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for Henry Bentinck, 1st Duke of Portland with a cycle of wall-paintings depicting scenes from the life of Christ.

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described the scheme as "a Noble free invention. great force of lights and shade, with variety & freedom, in the composition of the parts". The chapel was demolished in the 19th century, but oil ''

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'' still exist. Ricci also designed stained glass for the

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' chapel at

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. In –15 Ricci painted the apse in the chapel at the

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of the

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. By the end of 1716, with his nephew, he left England for Paris, where he met Watteau, and submitted his ''Triumph of the Wisdom over Ignorance'' in order to gain admission to the Royal French Academy of Painting and Sculpture, which was granted on 18 May 1718. He returned to Venice in 1718 a wealthy man, and bought comfortable lodgings in the Old Procuratory of St. Mark. That same year, the Riccis decorated the villa of Giovanni Francesco Bembo in Belvedere, near

. In 1722 he was one of twelve artists commissioned to contribute a painting on canvas of one of the apostles as part of a decorative scheme at the church of St Stae in Venice. The other artists involved included Tiepolo, Piazetti, and Pellegrini.

Last years

From 1724 to 1729, Ricci worked intensely for the Royal

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in Turin. In 1724 he painted the ''Rejection of Agar'' and the ''Silenus adores the Idols'', in 1725, the ''Madonna in Gloria'', in

in 1726, he completed ''Susanna presented to Daniel'' and ''Moses causes water to gush from the rock''. In October 1727 he was admitted to the Clementine Academy of Venice. Ricci's style developed a following among other Venetian artists, influencing Francesco Polazzo, Gaspare Diziani, Francesco Migliori, Gaetano Zompini, and Francesco Fontebasso (1709–1769). He died in Venice on 15 May 1734.

Veronese copies

Ricci made many copies from the works of

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, both of individual heads and of whole compositions. Some of these copies of heads were bought by George III. The king also bought a painting of the ''Finding of Moses'' which his agent, Joseph Smith, claimed was a Veronese, although this too had been painted by Ricci, either as a pastiche of Veronese's style, or a copy of a work now lost. Ricci painted a supposed portrait of

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, attributed to Veronese and engraved by Bernard Picart for the frontispiece of the first English edition (1715) of Palladio's '' Four Books of Architecture''. According to Rudolf Wittkower, it does not depict Palladio, but rather is entirely the invention of Ricci.Nash 1999, pp. 1347–1349; Wittkower 1974, p. 82, cited by Nash.

Critical assessments

"Ricci, leaning at first on the example of splendid art of the

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, made a new ideal prevail, one of clear and rich coloristic beauty: in this he paved the way for Tiepolo. The painting of figures of the Roccoco to Venice remains incomprehensible in its evolution without Ricci... Tiepolo germinated the work started by Ricci to such a richness and splendor that it leaves Ricci in the shadows... although Sebastiano is recognized in the combative role of forerunner "(Derschau). "He is the master of a resurrected-fifteenth century style, whose painterly features are enriched with nervous express and, typically 17th century" ( Rudolf Wittkower). Wittkower in his Anthology, contrasts the facile luminous style of Ricci with the darker, more emotional intense painting of

. Like Tiepolo, Ricci was an international artist; Piazzetta was local. "We perceive in him that synthesis of the

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decorativeness and individualized and substantial painting, that we will see later again in Tiepolo. On one side the influence of

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, directed and indirect, and on the other the observant painting of the hermit Magnasco; more intense, substantial and freed academic impulses, the airy, shining influences become, to the open air, magical coves, as well as gloomy corners. A new synthesis that opened wide new painting horizons, even if the scene is not that of a ballet, it is felt like bing in the wonders of the color, in more vibrating, acute, agile accents "(Moschini). "At the start of the Baroque..Venetians remained isolated from the outside…from the great ideas of the baroque painting… The Ricci are the first traveling Venetian painters... and succeed to inaugurate the so-called roccoco rooms of Pitti and Marucelli palaces."( Roberto Longhi). Ricci "brought back in the Venetian tradition a wealth of chromatic expression resolved in a new vibrating brilliance brightness…by means of the intelligent interpretation of the Veronese chromatics and of the brushstrokes of a Magnasco-like touch, from the 16th century impediments, he takes unfashionable positions against "tenebrous styles", is against the new Piazzetta – Federico Bencovich. He supplied a valid painterly idiom for ... Tiepolo to use after his defection from the Piazzettism "(Pallucchini). "Venice, still more than Naples, collects the Ricci inheritance of the prodigioso trade of Luca Giordano... Sebastiano throws again it, widens he then, refines it for the school of Sebastiano Mazzoni "(Argan) Sebastiano_Ricci_015

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Works/Gallery

*''Portrait of a Bishop'', Landesmuseum Ferdinandeum, Innsbruck *''Mercy'' (1686), New Church of the Capuchins, Parma *''Frescoes'' in collaboration with Bibiena, (1687) Sacristy of the Fallen in Church of Santo Segundo, Parma *''History'' and ''Apotheosis of Paul III'' (1687–1688), Farnese Palace, now Pinacoteca Civica, Piacenza *''Guardian Angel'' (1694), Chiesa del Carmine, Pavia *''Frescoes'' (1695), Church of San Bernardino alle Ossa,

*''Ecstasy of St Francis'' (ca 1695–96),

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*''Last Supper'' (ca 1720), Museum of Fine Arts,

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*''Frescoes''(1697), Duomo of Monza *''Communion of St Maria Egiziaca'' (1698), Archconfraternity of the Duomo of the Santa Sindone, Milan *''St Gregory the Great intercedes with Madonna'' (1700), Church of Santa Giustina, Padua *''Frescoes'' (1700), Church of Santa Giustina, Padua *''Ascension'' (1701), Santi Apostoli, Rome *''Allegory of the princely virtues'' (1702),

, Vienna *''Assumption of Virgin'' (1702) Gemäldegalerie, Dresden *''Crucifixion with Virgin, John the Evangelist and Carlo Borromeo'' (1704), Uffizi, Florence *''Procolo, Peasant Detention'' (1704), Duomo, Bergamo) *''Vision of St. Bruno'' (1705

*Frescoes (1706–1707), Palazzi Palazzo Fenzi, Fenzi Marucelli & Pitti, Florence *''Madonna with Child'' (1708),

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*''Family of Darius before Alexander'' & ''Continence of Scipio'' (ca 1709), North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh *'' Liberation of Saint Peter'' (1710), Trescore Balneario, Bergamo, church of Saint Peter)(San Sta

*''Christ giving the keys to St Peter'' & ''Call of St Peter'' (1710), Church of Saint Pietro, Bergamo, San Pietro, Bergamo *''Assumption'' (1710), Santa Maria Maggiore, Bergamo) *''Esther before Ahasuerus'' (1711), Palazzo Taverna, Rome *''Moses saved from the waters'' (1711) *''Sacred Family with Elizabeth and John'' (1712), Royal Collections, London *''Frescoes for Burlington House'' (1712–1714), London **''Cupid before Jove''; ''Encounter of Bacchus and Ariadne''; and ''Triumph of Galatea'' *''Frescoes for

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'' (1712–14), London **''Bacchus and Ariadne'' (National Galler

**''Venus and Cupid'', ''Diana and Endymion'', ''Cupid and Flora'', and ''Diana and Nymphs'' *'' Endymion (mythology), Selene & Endymion'' (1713), London *''The Resurrection'' (1714),

, London *''Triumph of Wisdom over Ignorance'' (1718),

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, Paris *''Head of Woman'' (1718), fresco fragment, Civic Museum, Belluno *'' Bathsheba at her Bath'' (1724),

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, Budapest * Sabauda Gallery, Turin **''Repudiation of Agar'' and ''Solomon adores the Idols'' (1724) **''Madonna in Glory with archangel Gabriel and Saints Eusebio, Sebastiano & Rocco'' (1725) **''Susanna in front of Daniel'' and ''Moses make water gush from the rock'' (1726) **''Magdalen applies ointment to Christ's feet'' (1728) *'' Apotheosis of Saint Sebastian'' (circa 1725), Musée des Beaux-Arts, Strasbourg *''St Cajetan heals the Sick'' (1727), Brera Gallery, Milan *''Ecstasy of St. Teresa'', (1727, Church of St Jerome (now St Mark), Vicenza) * Royal Palace, Turin **''Hagar in the desert''; ''Jacob blesses the sons of Joseph''; ''Moses saved from waters''; and ''Rebecca and Eliazer at the well'' (1727) *''Christ and the Centurions'' and ''Wedding at Cannae'', (1729), Capodimonte Museum, Naples *''Communion and Martyrdom of St Lucia'' (1730), Church of Santa Lucia, Parma *''Immaculate Conception'' (1730), Church of San Vitale, Venice *''Madonna in Glory with Child and Angel Guardian'', (1730) Scuola of the Guardian Angel, Venice *''Prayer in Garden'', (1730),

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*Self-portrait (1731), Uffizi Gallery *''Pope Gregory the Great intercedes with Virgin'' (1731), Sant'Alessandro della Croce, Bergamo *''Pope Gregory the Great intercedes for souls in Purgatory'', (1733), Saint Gervais, Paris *''Pope Pio V, Saints Thomas Acquinus, & Peter Martyr'' (1733), Gesuati, Venice *''St Francis from resuscitates child Paola'' and ''St Helen discovers True Cross'', San Rocco Church, Venice *''Baldassarre'' and ''Ester before Ahasuerus'' (1733),

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, Rome *''Assumption'' (1734)

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He was the uncle of Marco Ricci (1676 – 1730), who trained with him, and became an innovator in

References

Sources

*Free translation from Italian Wikipedia entry * * Nash, Paul W.; Savage, Nicholas (1999). ''Early Printed Books 1478–1840: Catalogue of the British Architectural Library, Early Imprints Collection''. London: Bowker-Saur. . * Rizzi, Aldo. ''Sebastiano Ricci disegnatore'', Electa – Milano 1975 * Rizzi, Aldo. ''Sebastiano Ricci'', Electa – Milano 1989 * Wittkower, Rudolf (1974). ''Palladio and English Palladianism''. London: Thames and Hudson. . *

External links

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